Cryptography, in particular public-key cryptography, has emerged in the last 20 years as an
important discipline that is not only the subject of an enormous amount of research, but …

From experimental design to cryptography, this comprehensive, easy-to-access reference
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The theory of finite fields is a branch of modern algebra that has come to the fore in recent
years because of its diverse applications in such areas as combinatorics, coding theory …

This book is an account of the combinatorics of projective spaces over a finite field, with
special emphasis on one and two dimensions. With its successor volumes, Finite projective …

This is the first volume of a two-volume text on design theory. Since the first edition, there
has been extensive development of the theory. In particular, the growing importance of …

XII Preface solution as efficiently as possible. Most of the problems we treat have a good
algorithmic solution, but we also show how even difficult problems can be treated (for …

Elliptic curves have been intensively studied in algebraic geometry and number theory. In
recent years they have been used in devising efficient algorithms for factoring integers and …

This is the unique book on cross-fertilisations between stream ciphers and number theory. It
systematically and comprehensively covers known connections between the two areas that …

This is a textbook for graduate and upper level undergraduate students in mathematics,
computer science, communication engineering and other fields. The explicit construction of …

We clarify the mathematical structure underlying unitary t-designs. These are sets of unitary
matrices, evenly distributed in the sense that the average of any t th order polynomial over …